Pennsylvania Act 1947-418 — VALIDATING CONVEYANCES BY COUNTY HOMES

Act text

AN ACT

Validating certain conveyances of real property made by a county home or by the directors of the poor.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. All conveyances of real property made or entered into by any county home or by the directors of the poor in any county, city, borough, township or poor district prior to the act, approved the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-seven (Pamphlet Laws 2017), entitled "An act creating in each county (except of the first class) as a separate corporation, and in each city of the first and second class as a part of the city government, an institution district for the care and maintenance of certain indigent persons and children; prescribing the powers and duties of county commissioners, county treasurers, city departments of public welfare, the State Department of Welfare and the State Department of Public Assistance in respect thereto; abolishing certain poor districts and terminating the terms of directors, overseers, guardians and managers of the poor and poor district auditors, and providing for the temporary employment of certain of them; providing for the transfer, vesting, sale and disposition of the property of poor districts and the payment of their obligations; imposing certain existing obligations on institution districts and on the Commonwealth; regulating the affairs of poor districts until abolished; revising, amending, changing and consolidating the law relating to the care of the poor; and repealing existing laws," are hereby ratified and confirmed, whether or not such conveyances were approved by the court of common pleas as required by the provisions of the act, approved the twenty-eighth day of April, one thousand eight hundred eighty-seven (Pamphlet Laws 75).

Compiler's Note: The Department of Public Welfare, referred to in this section, was redesignated as the Department of Human Services by Act 132 of 2014.